Disruptive Trends in Entrepreneurial Finance Research

Entrepreneurial finance scholars address the questions and themes related to which, how, when, and why ventures attract external funding and how it affects their future development (Bellavitis et al., 2017b; Block et al., 2018; Cumming et al., 2019a; Cumming & Groh, 2018; Cumming et al., 2022a). Most attention has been devoted to equity capital because of its pivotal role in the financing of high-growth entrepreneurship (Drover et al., 2017) and significant firm-level implications (Bonini et al., 2019; Eldridge et al., 2021; Manigart et al., 2002). While the entrepreneurial finance field is well-established, recent disruptive trends have attracted substantial scholarly attention. Specifically, radical financial market innovations such as digitization, invigorated research opportunities in traditional topics such as VC research, and novel statistical approaches and data sources have created a promising and exciting space to study entrepreneurial finance. This panel aims to inform researchers by discussing these disruptive trends and their implications for future research with prominent entrepreneurial finance scholars.